Quotes About Pressure

Where I work at the auto plant, the workers are just dropping like flies. When there's a lot of work because of a new model coming out, they make people work 10 and 12 hours every day, 6 days a week. Lots of people, even the younger ones, are developing high blood pressure, having accidents on the job, or car accidents on the way to and from work, or other serious health problems. But they have to do it. If you don't like it, you can just quit.44

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

Only Puerto Rican girl on the earth who wouldn't give up the ass for any reason. I can't, she said. I can't make any mistakes. ...Paloma was convinced that if she made any mistakes in the next two years, any mistakes at all, she would be stuck in that family of hers forever. That was her nightmare. Imagine if I don't get in anywhere, she said. You'd still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.

I was discovered on YouTube and I think I was detrimental to my own career.

And he became more and more miserable, until he felt he would explode like a New Year firecracker, where powder is packed into a paper cylinder, and remains quiet until the fuse is lit and it tears itself apart in the explosion.

Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

Pan cierpi, bo Pan za du?o od siebie wymaga. I od innych. Stanowczo za du?o.

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

Scientists accustomed to working with limited resources and virtually no deadlines now had to adjust to a world of unlimited resources and exacting deadlines.

Look, it may seem like they're all the friends you have, but if you get pressured into doing something you don't want, you will only end up hating what you've done and feeling bad about yourself. That's worse than having so-called friends who don't want you as a friend just because you didn't do what they wanted you to." - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the "cause" of this war with nothing to evaluate "objectively" and argue about.

Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by muzzling scientific findings found to be in contradiction with political and economic agenda.

A lot of pressure for one human being.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

When 'Game Of Thrones' came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing - getting more followers doesn't bother me at all.

I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.

Interviews are difficult.

We didn't want to do any more interviews. The more we talked, the worse things got.

Interviews are horrible. All your life you are trained not to talk about yourself. Then you are expected to do nothing else, to talk only of yourself.

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down in a way because I think of it as a fun way to show off what I've been working on.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.